Growing Pains

Our little boy is growing up! He weighs almost 12 pounds and has grown three inches since birth! (If you know our family, you will understand how remarkable this height growth is!) He has outgrown his newborn clothes, rolls from tummy to back and back to tummy, holds his head up, and has even had his first cold- A true sign of childhood.

Ben's ears are growing at a rapid pace as well. He is already on his third set of ear molds, the soft plastic portion of his hearing aid that sits inside his ear. Ben's audiologist makes impressions of his ears and sends them to a factory. In two weeks ear molds return. Ear molds that are already too small for Ben's growing ears!

The microphone, on the top of the hearing aid, picks up sounds and sends them to an amplifier that makes them louder. After sounds are made louder, they go through the earhook to an ear mold. The ear mold's job is to hold the sound inside Ben's ear.



Since Ben's ear molds don't fit tightly, the sound leaks out- feedback. If you have ever been near a person whose hearing aids squeal, they have poor fitting ear molds. Ben's sound like bees buzzing around is head. Sometimes I can hear my voice coming from his ear...kinda creepy.

Here he is rolling like a champ! As he rolls, he loosens the ear mold. Ah, feedback!